Jeff Bezos Is the World’s Richest Man — Again

Jeff Bezos may have just overtaken Bill Gates to reclaim the distinction of richest person in the world, after Amazon reported earnings that beat Wall Street expectations, sending the stock up 8% in after-hours trading. The move boosted Bezos’s net worth by as much as $6.6 billion.

Google’s cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin also felt their pockets swell as stock in Google’s parent company Alphabet jumped after it too released better-than-expected earnings. Gates’s wealth also increased, albeit by a more modest $340 million, after Microsoft released its own earnings report.